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Re: RFA: Recording MIPS ABI selection in binaries
- To: "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd at sibyte dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: Recording MIPS ABI selection in binaries
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:32:46 -0700
- CC: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <200008090030.RAA19784@elmo.cygnus.com> <5tittb2pv3.fsf@highland.sibyte.com>
"Chris G. Demetriou" wrote:
> That actually makes me think:
>
> the defined values for EF_MIPS_MACH are unused, and, really, per my
> previous thought, EF_MIPS_MACH is really better expressed by something
> like what you're currently proposing. You could deprecate its use and
> steal a few bits from it (looks like 4, non-contiguous), without
> breaking backward compatibility with the defines in the existing
> headers, if you are careful.
FYI, EF_MIPS_MACH is used to determine the ISA. Its fairly orthogonal
to ABI related flags such as -mgp32.
Andrew